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Description: | This photograph shows land off Tipton Road being excavated for scrap metal. The site was once part of Claycroft Colliery - open cast - The giant pit was used as a landfill site for a local foundry for many years and when full, metal extraction was carried out. The site is now a housing estate complete wirh a filling station. The houses in the background are at the junction of Bramford Drive and Tipton Road. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Archives | Subjects: | Collieries | Temporal: | c 1964 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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